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Building Sentinel: Teaching an AI Agent to Validate Vulnerabilities So Our Engineers Don't Have To
Part Two of a Two-Part Series on Our AI Security Operations Platform In Part One of this series, we introduced Mastermind, the AI knowledge assistant that gives our entire company perfect recall across every engagement, every document, and every conversation. Mastermind solves the knowledge problem. But there's another problem that eats just as much of our team's time, and it lives on the other side of the workflow. Every penetration test produces findings. A vulnerability sc
Trevor Baines
Feb 1910 min read


Building Mastermind: Why We're Giving Our Entire Company an AI That Never Forgets a Finding, a Conversation, or a Client
Part One of a Two-Part Series on Our AI Security Operations Platform Every security consultancy has the same vulnerability: institutional knowledge lives in people's heads. When a senior pentester leaves, nuanced attack paths they discovered months ago leave with them. A new analyst joins the team, and it takes them weeks to get up to speed on a client's environment, poring through past reports, contracts, and scoping documents just to understand what's already been tested an
Trevor Baines
Feb 1910 min read


The Future of Pentesting Is Not a Scanner And It’s Not a Human Either
Why we built the infrastructure behind continuous testing — and what it says about where application security is headed. Arcane Security Engineering Blog February 2026 The Two Camps That Defined — and Limited — Our Industry If you’ve spent any time in application security, you’ve seen the same debate play out a hundred times. Somebody on the engineering side says “we should just automate our security testing,” and somebody on the security side says “automated scanners miss ev
Trevor Baines
Feb 1910 min read


Arcane Security CyberQuest
The Arcane Security CyberQuest program offers a 12-week comprehensive course engaging K-12 teachers and students with fundamental...
Diego Briceno
May 31, 20232 min read
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